81.   In addition, all recommended ministers and deputy ministers must submit their credentials and a police security clearance to the committee before their appointments may be ratified by parliament.

82.   A government spokesman said the contract would be signed in early January and would be ratified by parliament in the near future.

83.   But the Russian parliament has never ratified the accord and no troops have been pulled out.

84.   Drnovsek said that the parliament would ratify the accord next month and would take the required constitutional changes after that, it said.

85.   The Russian parliament on Wednesday ratified a friendship treaty between Russia and China signed in July in Moscow by Chinese President Jiang Zemin and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

86.   The pullout still has to be ratified by parliament.

87.   The row erupted Thursday, after the Greek parliament ratified the sea convention on the same day as Turkey began annual military exercises around the Aegean Sea.

88.   The Serb parliament ratified the move on Wednesday.

89.   The South Korean parliament has already ratified the convention while the Japanese parliament aims to do so in the current session, posssibly in March.

90.   The Russian parliament ratified it in May last year but the United States and China have not yet done so.